certain circumstances; altering the requirements for when certain hospitals may
close under certain circumstances; establishing the classification of critical
access limited service hospitals for certain health care facilities; establishing
certain operating standards for critical access hospitals requiring the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain regulations; -requiring the
Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make certain
calculations relating to certain hospital's licensed bed capacity and to delicense
certain excess beds by a certain date; requiring certain hospitals to include
certain information in a certain report to the Health Services Cost Review
Commission; altering certain notice requirements for when a person proposes to
close or delicense certain hospitals; requiring certain notice requirements for
when a person proposes to convert certain hospitals; altering the Maryland
Hospital Bond Program to permit the Health Services Cost Review Commission
to provide for the payment of all or any portion of the closing costs for certain
hospitals that convert to a critical access hospital under certain circumstances;
altering the Maryland Hospital Bond Program to clarify the method used for
determining a hospital's bond indebtedness that will be included in the Program
the amount of public body obligation that qualifies for payment under the
Program, authorizing the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities
Authority to proceed against certain entities under certain circumstances;
requiring the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System to
develop certain protocols; repealing certain obsolete provisions requiring the
Secretary to conduct a certain study; making certain technical and stylistic
changes; defining certain terms; altering certain definitions; and generally
relating to hospital capacity and cost containment.

BY adding to

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Section 15-103(b)(28)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 19-101(f), 19-115, 19-201, 19-221, 19-301, and 19-307(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health — General
Section 19-307.1 and 19-307:2
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments;
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